1. PROMISES AND PERILS:THE INTERNET ASCONTESTED SPACE FOR SOCIAL CHANGEJILLIAN C. YORKELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION

2. ARABDIGITAL ACTIVISM:A BRIEF HISTORY 3. TUNISIA, 2006 4. ANTI-CORRUPTION 5. ANTI-CENSORSHIP 6. EGYPT: ANTI-TORTURE 7. MEDIA AND HUMOR 8. A TWITTER/FACEBOOK/WIKILEAKSREVOLUTION? 9. That a new information technology could beimprovised for this purpose so swiftly is a sign ofthe times ... You cannot stop people any longer.You cannot control them any longer. They canbypass your established media; they canbroadcast to one another; they can organize asnever before.-Andrew Sullivan, 2009The Atlantic 10. Whether we like it or not, the Internet isa classist privilege. Mainstream Arabmedia isnt. Hence many rely on these topublish news on the one hand, and toformulate a political vision gradually, atleast on the consciousness level, on theother. -Razan Ghazzawi, 2011 (Syria) 11. Our strength will always stem from thefact that well have one foot in thecyberspace, and, more importantly, theother foot will be on the ground. Hossam El-Hamalawy, 2008 (Egypt) 12. The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia is beingdriven by flesh and blood and conditions onthe ground, not because WikiLeaks revealedto Tunisians the real face of a governmenttheyd lived with their whole lives.-Dan MurphyChristian Science Monitor 13. TECHNOLOGY ASDOUBLE-EDGED SWORD 14. DOCUMENTATION 15. CONTENT REGULATIONSThe following video(s) from your account have been disabled for violatingthe YouTube Community Guidelines:Tunise : enfants des zones dfavorises (Nawaat)While it might not seem fair to say you cant show something because ofwhat viewers theoretically might do in response, we draw the line atcontent thats intended to incite violence or encourage dangerous, illegalactivities that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death. Itsnot okay to post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse,under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making. Any depictions likethese should be educational or documentary and shouldnt be designedto help or encourage others to imitate them.This is the second Community Guidelines warning sanction your accounthas received within six months. Accordingly, the ability to post newcontent to YouTube from this account has been disabled and will notreturn until two weeks after you acknowledge this message. Pleasereview the YouTube Community Guidelines and refrain from furtherviolations, which may result in the termination of your account(s). 16. ORGANIZING 17. CENSORSHIP 18. PROPAGANDA 19. SUPPRESSION 20. MYTHSAND FACTS 21. BLOGS & BULLETS*FRAMEWORK1. individual transformation2. intergroup relations3. collective action4. regime policies5. external attention *George Washington University/USIP 22. Social media is not a movement, its a tooland it certainly did not jump out of the screenand cause Ben Ali to flee [but] it can be apotent tool for social change [and] there arestrong theoretical reasons to think it alterscollective action dynamics.-Zeynep TufekciUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 23. The uprising that started on 25 January 2011was the result of a long process in which thewall of fear fell, bit by bit. The key to it allwas that the actions on the ground werevisually transmitted to the widest possibleaudience. Nothing aids the erosion of onesfear more than knowing there are others,somewhere else, who share the same desirefor liberation and have started takingaction. -Hossam Hamalawy, 2011 24. Everybody knew that this washappening, but then you have a video onthe internet actually showing it-Wael Abbas re: torture videos(Egypt) 25. Social media has created a sortof alternate space for reviving adormant publicconsciousness into a sentient,dynamic social discourse.-Hani Morsi(Egypt) 26. JILLIAN C. YORKDirector, International Freedom of ExpressionElectronic Frontier Foundationhttp://jilliancyork.com@jilliancyork